Re: Science and philosophy

From: Bill Hobba (bhobba_at_rubbish.net.au)
Date: 07/10/04


Date: Sat, 10 Jul 2004 22:33:43 GMT


"Franco" <englishenglish@tin.it> wrote in message
news:83PHc.22829$tP4.992080@news4.tin.it...
>
> Bill Hobba ha scritto nel messaggio ...
> CUT
>
> Dear Bill, philosophy is dead!! That word does not mean anything.

Tell you delusions to those that compile dictionaries and create courses at
universities

Bill

We have
> disciplines.
> Instead of aristotle's physics we have our physics. Intead of plato
> epistemology we have einstein(dirac and so on) epistemology.
>
> I could go on. But I'm sure you understand what I'm talking about.
>
> We have SCIENCE and not philosophy. Philosophy is a dead "term". And
nobody
> can say us what it mean.
>
> One can talk about aristotle's thought, plato's thought. Kant's thought
and
> so on.
> And one can discover that plato's(aristotle, kant, hegel and so on)
thought
> is maths, physics, logic, psychology, politics, economics, cosmology and
so
> on.
>
> We have a name and a discipline for every branch.
>
> Philosophy is dead because we have replaced that activity with a lot of
> disciplines.
>
> Opinions, are opinions. One can call that "philosophy". But i think that
> aristotle or plato, would be not glad:)
>
> One can call aristotle's physics "opinion". I think that "was" phyiscs, of
> course an old kind to make up physics.
>
> But I'm still waiting for somebody who will tell me what philosophy is
> "nowadays" and not what it was in the past.
>
> Bye
> Franco
>
>
>
>



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